Summertime events in Detroit 2007

[Matt]

I'd like to compile a list of cool things going on in Detroit this summer. Please feel free to add to the list.

May 18-20: Downtown Hoedown (link)

May 26 - 28: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival (link)

June 8 - 10: Detroit Festival of Arts (link)

June 21-28: 8 Days in June Festival (link)

June 22 - 27: Detroit River Days (link)

June 27: International Freedom Festival (link)

July 4 -8: Comerica CityFest (link)

July 19-22: Concert of Colors (link)

Aug. 31 - Sep. 3: Detroit International Jazz Festival (link)

[Glenn]

Anybody got the date for the Pistons parade?

[Zip Goshboots]

Here's a list of fun things going on this summer in Omaha if you're going to visit:

Well, hope you enjoyed that, start booking your hotels early!

[Matt]

Concert of Colors adds to lineup

May 5, 2007

The 15th annual Concert of Colors will expand to four days from three and feature a performance of a Detroit Symphony Orchestra-commissioned tribute to Rosa Parks.

For the second year in a row, the free multicultural music festival will be held at the Max M. Fisher Music Center, home of the DSO. The fest moved full time to the Max last year after a long run at the Chene Park Amphitheatre on Detroit's riverfront.

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Running from July 19-22, the Concert of Colors will include an opening-day community, culture & race forum, which last year drew representatives from more than 100 local arts organizations. That will be followed by the DSO's performance of "Dear Mrs. Parks," a 57-minute orchestral piece with choir. The tribute to the civil rights icon was composed by Grammy-winner Hannibal Lokumbe on commission from the DSO.

The festival typically features dozens of musical acts from all over the world in a wide range of styles. The full lineup will be released May 23.

The Concert of Colors is produced in partnership by ACCESS/Arab American National Museum and New Detroit Inc. and its Cultural Exchange Network, along with the DSO. This year's lead sponsor is DaimlerChrysler.

More information is at www.concertofcolors.com.

[Matt]

Tunes are busting out all over
DSO's ambitious 8 Days in June will feature everything from chamber and orchestral works to Chuck D and Wynton Marsalis

April 9, 2007
BY MARK STRYKER
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

When the Max M. Fisher Music Center opened in 2003, Detroit Symphony Orchestra leaders promised that more ambitious artistic programming, including thematic festivals, would soon follow.

But while the DSO did expand its jazz, world music, spoken word and other populist offerings, classical programming remained stuck in neutral, and the vow to produce festivals evaporated like an unfulfilled New Year's resolution.

Nearly four years later, the DSO is making good on its pledge.

The orchestra will launch 8 Days in June, an ambitious festival June 21-28 featuring orchestral concerts, jazz, chamber music, solo piano, spoken word and panel discussions at Orchestra Hall and the smaller Music Box recital hall at the Max. Tied to the theme "Creation in Conflict," the festival's 11 events will explore music arising from troubled times, interpersonal conflict or periods of intense artistic ferment.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...NT04/704090330

[Matt]

Detroit Festival of Arts, this weekend:

http://detroitfestival.com/07/index.php

Join us at the 21st Detroit Festival of the Arts
Detroit's Unrivaled International Arts Festival
In Midtown's University Cultural Center

Friday - Sunday, June 8th - 10th, 2007

Friday: 4:00 - 11:00pm
Saturday: noon - 11:00pm
Sunday: noon - 9:00pm

Embrace Detroit's creative community and celebrate a fresh perspective! Nestled within the arms of the city resides a community where the fine and performing arts flourish and Detroit's diverse cultural heritage is applauded and encouraged to thrive. From hot Latin rhythms to the comic antics of international street theatre or a 75-ton sand sculpture, the Detroit Festival of the Arts will delight the whole family. Now in its 21st year, the Detroit Festival of the Arts presents outstanding visual and performing artists from around the world, while showcasing the City's premier cultural institutions clustered within its boundaries.

[Matt]

Detroit River Days, June 22 -27

http://www.detroitriverdays.com/

Detroit International River Days will welcome residents and visitors to the new and renewed Riverfront. It will introduce the site as a community gathering space, enable key corporate supporters to showcase their products and facilities, reinvigorate existing events and present new and exciting free, public events.

[Tahoe]

Does anyone know about a BB King festival in Detroit off the top? I heard he had a festival or something. If so I'd time my vacay to Mich to see him.

[WTFchris]

SPORTS RADIO 1130 WDFN'S 5TH ANNUAL MEATA

Friday, August 3
GET FREE FOOD, TEST THE SPEED OF YOUR FASTBALL, VOTE FOR THE BEST FOOD IN DETROIT AND DUNK SEAN BALIGIAN
Sports Radio 1130 WDFN is hosting the 5th annual MEATA, Men Eating All The Animals; a celebration of men eating meat! Midday host Sean Baligian will be broadcasting live from The Compuware Sports Arena in Plymouth on Friday, August 3rd from 9am to noon and hanging out afterward to celebrate eating meat! Listeners are invited to bring meat and wild game of any kind as we light up the grills bright and early. We’ll be grilling every piece of meat we can get our hands on from the common hamburger to venison and other exotic meats. Plus we're asking people to bring a canned good for the Oakland County Food Bank so we can help feed those that are less fortunate. Also, this year is the Inaugural "WDFN's Best of 2007" Competition and we're inviting every restaurant, deli, burger shack, etc. in town who specializes in one of 5 categories to come out and put their product up against the best in town to be voted on. The 5 categories include burgers, wings, sandwiches/wraps, pizza and coney dogs. Everybody who comes out will have the opportunity to vote on the Best of each category and the winners of each category will be celebrated on WDFN's website as "WDFN's Best of 2007." If you're interested in entering your restaurant into the competition for a nominal fee, please contact Elliot Lerner at elliotlerner@clearchannel.com for more information. If that's not enough, you'll have an opportunity to submerge Sean Baligian in a dunk tank for the chance to win baseball tickets and other great prizes. Plus, organize a game of hoops with PickUpHoops, a patented portable basketball goal assembly that mounts in the bed of a pickup truck, or test your fastball with a fast pitch machine courtesy of Milt Wilcox (not scheduled to appear). As a big proponent of red-blooded foods, self-proclaimed carnivore Sean Baligian started up the concept of MEATA in response to the world-wide animal rights organization PETA-People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the feedback has being overwhelming. Stop by the Compuware Sports Arena on your lunch break for some FREE grub or take the day of entirely and spend it with Sean and the whole crew of meatlovers from WDFN. Show up hungry and leave absolutely stuffed! Brought to you by Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Compuware Sports Arena and Sports Radio 1130 WDFN. Click here for a map.

[Fool]

Haven't you gone to this before Matt?